Two foreign tuna fishing vessels are still on the run after they escaped from custody in Cape Town harbor. South Africa has requested Interpol, international police organization, to issue a...
Tuna Fishing News
New Seiner ‘Gijon’ Ready To Sail For Mexico
Construction of the Mexican tuna seiner, “Gijon”, has been completed and the vessel is ready to start fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean for the North American country. The seiner was...
Fiji Albacore Licenses To Be Reduced
Yesterday, atuna.com published the article “Fiji Government Makes First Steps On Solving Albacore Crisis”, which contained a piece of inaccurate information about an increase in Fiji fishing...
3 Tuna Longliners Detained As “Slave Ships”
Foreign longline tuna vessels have been stopped by South African authorities for fishing without permission of the Cape coast and holding “modern-day slaves” on board. Three ships have had...
Kenya Takes Steps To Guard Tuna In Its EEZ
An offshore patrol vessel is under construction as part of steps being taken by Kenya to guard the tuna resource in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The country’s President Kenyatta has said...
Hawaii Bigeye Fleet Expect To Lose Millions Of USD
The Hawaiian bigeye tuna fleet is expecting to witness at least a USD 10 million drop in bigeye sales by 2017. This is due to US longline fishing boats in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean...
Fiji Government Makes First Steps On Solving Albacore Crisis
In the midst of the albacore crisis that has hit the Fiji tuna fleet, the island’s government has approved a number of incentives for the local industry. It has been confirmed by the Permanent...
Little Tagged Bluefin Tuna Grows To Giant In 16 Years
In 1997, charter captain Al Anderson hooked, tagged and released a cute little 14-pound bluefin tuna while fishing out of Point Judith, Rhode Island. It’s probably a safe bet he hasn’t thought...
Taiwan And Japan Agree On Bluefin Fishing Ground
Fishing regulations that cover the waters in the East China Sea, a bluefin tuna fishing ground, have been agreed on by Japan and Taiwan. The area is near to the Japan-controlled, Taiwan...
The Tunarama Tuna Tossing Festival
Hundreds of people headed to Port Lincoln, Australia, during the weekend to celebrate what the town is best known for – tuna. The Tunarama festival is famous for its bluefin tuna toss...
Bali’s Tuna Exports Slightly Up
Bali’s tuna exports in the first ten months of 2013 saw a modest increase on the previous year. Despite a more than 15 percent rise, value per ton took a dip, leaving the country’s earnings...
The Reel Fish Wants To Make A Comeback In Tuna
Reel Fish pole and line caught tuna is planning to make a comeback in the UK canned tuna tuna segment, as co-founders of The Reel Fish Co have vowed to return the brand to the shelves in time...
End Albacore Crisis In Hands Of South Pacific States
The end of the albacore crisis in the Pacific tuna industry is in the hands of South Pacific governments. This is the view of PNA CEO, Transform Aqorau, who says that the dwindling of fish...
Mozambique USD 500 Mio For 6000 M/T Annual Catch
Investors in bonds to buy a Mozambique tuna fleet will need the 2011 catch in the country’s waters of total 6,000 tons to drastically increase in order for them to reap any return on their USD...
WTO To Review US Compliance In Tuna-Dolphin Dispute
The WTO is to review this month whether the United States’ efforts to revise its “dolphin-safe” tuna labelling scheme is in full compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules with...
Tuna Seiners Return To Gabon, Must Offload Part Of Catch
The green light has been given for 27 Spanish and French tuna purse seine vessels by the European Parliament Fisheries Committee to fish in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Gabon. This...
Maldives Provides “Innocent Passage” To Sri Lanka Tuna Fishermen
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Recourses, Rajitha Senaratne, has announced that Sri Lankan fishermen will be provided with an “innocent passage” to the Arabian Sea following the...
Second IATTC Tuna Ban Period Now Ended
The second IATTC ban on commercial tuna fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean has come to an end. The two month measure prohibited commercial tuna seiners over 400 M/T from fishing yellowfin,...
The “American Tuna” That Schools Are Not Buying
American schools vow to “Buy American” for products that make up children’s lunch time meals as part of the US Agriculture Department’s standards. But for tuna, it seems that the true American...
Eco-Safe Tuna Compares EII With Jekyll And Hyde
The environmental group Earth Island Institute (EII) has been compared to the transition of Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde in a recent blog post by Campaign for Eco-Safe Tuna. Claiming today to...